There was no life under al-Assad. We were scared of him and his army,” Nada Daye, a Syrian resident, told Al Jazeera. Mamoun Nahlawi, a bookshop owner, said the economy should now open up after ...

A delegation of Russian officials has arrived in Damascus on the first such visit since Syria’s longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad was toppled ... from Damascus, Al Jazeera’s Osama Bin Javaid ...